Reading Time: 8 minutes I was wearing my favorite boots ever. It has been with me during my mountaineering training, gone on a couple of Himalayan treks, protected me during the Nepal motorbike trip, and joined me to visit a few other countries. I kind of felt at home wearing these waterproof leather Quechua boots. This is the story of my beloved boots!

Reading Time: 4 minutes It is that time of the year when I force myself to come up with a post to show off that I've started this blog on this day back in 2014! The last post on this blog was a year ago talking about how it was 7th year of trablogger! So clearly it doesn't mean […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes 7 years of Trablogger!
On September 1st 2021, this small space in the internet celebrated its 7th year of existence. A small project started out as an escape from monotony, soon helped me take different paths in life, literally and figuratively.

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the early 2020, before the COVID era, I was on a mission to explore Gokarna on my motorbike. I found a place to stay in one of the beaches and it was a perfect location to explore and create the trip I was planning. Every day I would take my bike out and explore […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The mountains, the houses on the mountains, the roads that snakes through these backdrop, the distant indistinct outline of mountain ranges and the fog that makes everything look surreal are some of the elements to fall in love with Aizawl, the capital city of Mizoram.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Jallikkettu aka Bull taming is a traditional event conducted in Tamil Nadu. This is a very sensitive issue since it involves animals and exploitation of animals. But like coins, everything has two sides. We, a bunch of friends visited the Jallikkettu village to to the other side of the coin, if there was any. Here […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes It is believed that, one of the many secrets of Konark Sun temple came to light only when a mystic was found calculating time using one of the stone wheels of the chariot. Yes, you can calculate time using the carved wheels found in Konark temple and that too with the precision of a minute!

Reading Time: 5 minutes This bus journey to Konark is a symbol, a representation, a cross-section of a country. Since India is a vast country with more than 1 billion people, generalisations mostly never work. Due the very reasons you will find both good and bad, kindness and contradictions, and all kinds of yin and yan wherever you decide to look.

Reading Time: 7 minutes This is the story of passion, a burning desire to see the world and overcoming the obstacles with determination. This is the story of Vijayan and Mohana, who are in their early 70's, who travel the world by selling tea and snacks.